i predict t >> good morning we're following new stories on this friday june 20. >> including philadelphia police cruiser was involved noon overnight crash. >> one man is in the hospital, two others in custody after a shooting at a south jersey apartment complex. >> a former pennsylvania pastor defrocked for officiating at the same-sex marriage of his own son will appeal to the methodist church today. good morning, matt o'donnell is off, walter perez

is joining us. today it feels like we're in for a reward. >> i hear her in the distance. >> reporter: i'm not worthy of being seen. storm tracker 6 live double scan looking around, we're dry and clear, no threat of showers today either, so we're looking good. let's start you with satellite and radar, you can see how we cleared out nicely. as you look over the past 12 hours, you can see how the storms dierveld -- dived to our south and west. we have basically clear skies we'll have abundant sunshine. we have an issue for tomorrow we'll get to. 64 in allentown, 66 in millville. comfortable temperatures low humidity, a little bit of a breeze, a huge change from the past couple of days.

as we look ahead, mostly sunny skies, a nice day, right around average, 84 degrees. tomorrow the weather is not horrible, but we have a couple of issues in the seven-day forecast, tam. >> thank you, karen. new this morning, philadelphia officers are questioning a driver involved in a crash with a police cruiser. the action cam was there before 1:00 a.m. as the patrols rounded the 3700 of stanton street in east falls. the officer rear ended this red pick up truck that was going the wrong way down a wrong way street. no injuries were reported. two people are in custody following a shooting at an apartment complex in south jersey. chopper 6 over westville late last night. a gunman shot a man at the west wood manner complex and took off. after a brief pursuit police caught up with the suspect and

made an arrest. chopper 6 was over the scene around 7:00 p.m. on the 4,000 block of bristol pike. the victim was taken to toss daily hospital with -- torresdale hospital with critical injuries. frank shaffer will appear before a church panel in baltimore to argue that his punishment was illegal under church law. he was defrocked 6 months. -- 6 months ago. presbyterian church allowed pastors to mar same-sex couples in states where it is legal. the change will need to be approved by the majority of 172

presbyterians to take effect. philadelphia city council has approved the bill that changed the punishment of small amounts of marijuana. before it was a night in jail, today it is a 25-dollar fine. enforcement of the current law is discriminatory those arrested 82% of them are of african-american. >> once you have a record you can't get a job. councilman dennis o'brian voted against the bill saying council overstepped its bounds saying it should be done by state lawmakers. with a vote of 13-3 it is veto

proof. the search is on tore a buyer with the atlantic city revel casino and hotel. if they do not find a buyer by august 18, 3200 workers will lose their jobs. revel lost more than $21 million during the first quarter of this year alone. some casino patrons expressed surprised such a high-end operation could be in danger of closing its door. >> the rooms are so pretty it's the best one we've been to on the board walker. >> i love that we're at the end of the ocean the architecture of the space, the restaurants are amazing. >> industry experts say the casino was a shaky bet from the beginning opening in one of the county's worst recessions and doing little to attract gamblers.

peco wants to make the summer bearable for seniors in need. volunteers are heading out to various locations across the region including center in the park in philadelphia's germantown section. they recommend using rooms and sealing fans to circulate air and closing blinds and shades to help cool things off inside. >> more u.s. troops are heading to iraq, but it's not a combat mission we'll complain. >> a new video shows what nasty storms left behind in the coal line in as -- carolinas. >> reporter: it's a great day ah

is. >> new video this morning shows

downed trees and power outage also in durham, north carolina.s 3600 customers lost power. two trees fell on a home with 8 children and two adults inside. no injuries were report. >> it felt so wonder when i woke up today. you wanted to stand there and enjoy how beautiful it was. >> reporter: because it was friday? [laughter] we've got a double header. storm tracker 6 live double scan looking around the region. we're looking good. we're dry today and dry tonight. we have a pleasant day ahead. let's show you what it looks like as sky 6 goes live. as you look live on sky6 hd we see blue skies not a whole lot of cloud cover. no more debris in the atmosphere. the showers has cleared out, as

well. it's 66 degrees so comfortable. the dewpoint 50. the winds out of the north that's a refreshing breeze at 5 miles per hour, the pressure 30.81. 64 in allentown, 62 at atlantic city international. satellite and radar showing the showers moved out. we have nothing but clear skies, we'll see mostly sunny skies, just a few clouds filtering in for you. as we look wider the front down to our south is getting stalled down in the region. this will impact us for tomorrow for the weekend, we'll have more clouds further south you go it will be sunnier the farmt north you north -- farther north you go, it will be 79 degrees. there will be a shower or two,

yesterday we called it spotty showers that's a good way to describe it, that means the day will be basically dry, just a spotty shower here or there. it's nice today, refreshing, 84 degrees. saturday, clouds and sunshine, 77 degrees. not bad we'll look for a chance of a shower here or there, i don't think they will be plentiful. sunday, mostly sunny, 84, tuesday, 86 degrees, wednesday, warm 87, showers and thunderstorms, thursday, 84. not a bad seven-day forecast for you, tam. >> i like it thank you, karen. now it's time to look at bltion, first up william penn high school in philadelphia will be sold to temple university. that will bring in $50 million to the philadelphia schools. src proved that yesterday.

they got a boost of $27 million from city council that will come in loans. the stocks at the end of the day mixed yesterday. not s&p 500 hit an all time high for the second day. the kill switch could be coming to phones from google and microsoft. this is technology that means if your phone is stolen it will become use atlanticless to a th. i love this, i maybe the -- may be the mother of sons, google is promoting computer science for girls to introduce girls to basic coding. it was one of my favorite class it ises in high school. >>

u.s. aircraft are flying over iraq 24 hours a day collecting intelligence. additional american help will begin arriving within days be president obama has dispatched 300 u.s. troops whole serve as military advisers. he opened the door for possible airstrikes. >> we'll we'll make strikes if and when we determine that conditions on the ground approve we need to. >> reporter: the president of united states goes for fundraising and golfing and now is fiddling while iraq burns. >> sources tell abc news secretary of state john kerry is likely to travel to iraq for face-to-face meetings. >> this is the time to insure that iraq receives the help that

is needed to break the momentum of extremest groups and bolster the capability of iraq security force. >> reporter: u.s. officials have become concerned about the iraqi president who didn't unite his people of different factions. the military advisor will be embedded with iraqi troops to train and advice them. >> president obama said the newest medal of honor recipient should not be alive. on number november 2010, jumpeda live grenade to save a fell marine. he is the 8 living veteran of combat of iraq and afghanistan to receive the medal of honor.

>> very impressive, i'm glad he was honored. >> reporter: new numbers show which pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate is raising more money than the other one. >> find out where you can go this weekend to see the captain america, the hulk and members of our "action news" team, as well. >>

>> reporter: well, gang congratulations it is friday morning, i'm matt pellman with your early check on traffic. we're looking live at girard avenue, in the distance you can see the flashing lights. overnight construction crews are blocking the northbound ramp from i-95 to girard. you can see people tapping their brakes saying i guess i'm not getting off there this morning. but the main lanes of i-95 are okay. the schuylkill expressway traffic here moving just fine. as you come off the schuylkill expressway on to city avenue they are doing milling and paving work they have been doing, watch out watch out for that around monument road. and manayunk where there's the

big arts festival that will give us closures clout the weekend. let's go to penns landing this is columbus boulevard that was the southbound direction, still working on a downed pole from yesterday, a dump truck took down wires, they are fixing that on columbus boulevard. flight tracker, good news at philadelphia international. the weather around here looks great. no problems anticipating here or in the northeast part of the country. but if you're heading out to the windy city, chicago you see a little bit of precipitation out there this morning, morning showers and storms at o'hare and midway. that will extend into detroit and cincinnati later on today you could see delays if those are your destinations. this afternoon and evening, some of our bills north carolina airports like raleigh and charlotte could see delays,

anticipate that. you can see the precipitation moving off the coast right now. also is the case in the great state of florida, miami, you could see pop up storms if you're heading down south. if you're heading out west, good news no major issues, let's say you're heading off to california how nice would that be, you're heading to san francisco, lax or san diego, things look great for you. tam. >> prosecutors say good detective work led to the arrest of a south jersey man they say this man robbed a string of 7-elevens and shot a store clerk. authorities say one of the men in the video is charles walls of collingswood. he suspected in 3 rabies since january. they found the car that was used in the robberies. they assumed that a sonic with a

lot of the traffic violations might be drive driven by somebody with little regard to the law. walls' car ended up at the top of the list. >> with the help of cherry hill they set up a surveillance team they surveilled him on one night he want out and did a job. >> police continue to look for two other suspects. the clerk who was shot survived, but has limited use of his legs. >> tom wolf is showing the financial impact of the primary race. wolf's campaign reported that he raise $3.5 million. but his cash on hand is down to 3 million because he spent 10 million in the primary. tom corbett has $4.8 million. he ran unopposed nidz primary, but -- in his primary, but spent

$11 million on ads so far. john street protested outside of city hall. the protesters saying pgw sale would result in job losses. mayor nutter said it would keep rates flat for three years and generate much-needed revenue. city council and the state legislature need to approve this deal. >> coming up at 5:00 a.m., the cdc is dealing with an internal anthrax scare. and dozens could be at risk. >> a chocolate lab in new jersey is preventing some folks

>> welcome back, you're taking a live look here on sky 6 out across center city at the peco building. it's a beautiful, lovely morning after the hot and humid days we had behind us. it's going to get up to 84 today. you could say a u.s. customs gave a drug smuggler his just deserts. he tried to smuggle cocaine in a cookies. instead of chocolate chips they contained white pellets that

contained cocaine with a street value of $50,000. the post office is refusing to deliver several houses in south jersey after a dog attacked a letter carrier. there an overweight chocolate lab named max is guilty of attacking and biting the mailman. >> he took off and went after the mailman and boom on his arm. i don't know why. residents in four homes have not received a mail delivery in over a month. the postal service said max has attacked its employees three times in the past year and continues to pose a serious threat. mail delivery will be reconsumed as soon as the post office is confident that its employees can deliver the mail safely. >> the firefly festival is

yurnt -- underway. 50,000 people are camping out for the entire weekend. it is the biggest such event on the east coast. this weekend it's the wizard world comic-con convention in philadelphia. if you're at all interested in sci-fi, comics or super heros this event has something for you. today members of the "action news" team will be at comic-con to sign autographs. if you bring your smart phone you can take part in a scavenger hunt. >> i'll be there, it's the first time albe there, i'm excited. breaking news, flames lit up the night sky in south jersey, as a raging inferno rips through a camden warehouse. we have a live report next. >> all in for a swim.

philadelphia passion and recreation kick off the 2014 pool season. details coming up when "action news" continues.

>> good morning, it is 5:00 a.m. on this friday, june 20th. here's what's happening. >> a raging inferno rips through two homes in new jersey overnight. we have new video. >> a health scare in the cdc and a dangerous lapse have put dozens in danger. >> a casino could close for good leaving dozens out of work. >> it feels great out there, david murphy is off, karen rogers has accuweather, matt pellman is looking at traffic. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, it's a big change overnight. temperatures in the lehigh valley, 17 degrees cooler than they were at this point yesterday. just 55 in allentown. a